THE ROAD TO HELL

The Silk Road: Today a pipeline for drug and sicknesses.


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The measures of repression adopted against the traditional outgoing centres of Afghan opium, obliged the drug dealers to head for the north.
The result: a wave of drug is beating down Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Badakhsan, all along the historical “Silk Road”.
Osh, in Kyrgyzstan, is becoming the world’s capital of opium selling, the turntable of a Road of Silk –probably the most famous road of the history- a road that is going back to work.Commission of the National Centre for Fine Arts –
Ministry of Culture and Communication.

photographs by Stanley GREENE

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